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by Kelly Macnamara Agence France-Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – US President Donald Trump is “mentally deranged” and will “pay dearly” for his threat to destroy North Korea, Kim Jong-Un said Friday, as his foreign minister hinted the regime may explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. In a rare personal attack published hours after Washington announced tougher sanctions, the North Korean leader took aim at Trump over his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly in […]
With the recent news about North Korea developing a hyrdrogen bomb, and that it had even recently detonated one, curiosity about what exactly is an H-bomb followed. Hydrogen bombs have a destructive power to dwarf even the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan in 1945. Unlike atomic or A-bombs, where the explosion comes from the splitting or fission of a heavy atomic nucleus, hydrogen or H-bombs work on the principle of nuclear fusion, when two […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s military launched a volley of ballistic missiles simulating an attack on the North’s nuclear test site Monday, Seoul said, in an exercise responding to a test of what Pyongyang says was a hydrogen bomb. Pictures showed South Korean short-range Hyunmoo ballistic missiles roaring into the sky in the pale light of dawn from a launch site on the country’s east coast. Authorities released video showing South Korean […]
North Koreans cheered as the news of the hydrogen bomb test by their leader was declared a success over state television. A video from North Korea showed people watching the news and cheering after the announcement of the successful H-bomb test. “I am really happy to hear the news of the successful test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM. I have once again realized that, with the respected Supreme Leader in high esteem, we will […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany, Italy and France on Sunday urged tougher European Union sanctions against North Korea, after Pyongyang “reached a new dimension of provocation” with its latest nuclear test. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed during a phone call “that North Korea has trampled on international law and that the international community must therefore react with determination against this new escalation,” the chancellery said in a statement. Both leaders […]
